This show has four different sets of cast and directors, one for each weekend. We encourage you to make plans to come see multiple weekends and experience the difference that can be achieved with the same script. When you come see your first performance of Love Letters, you will receive a coupon for you to see a subsequent weekend’s performances for only $10. We will keep your coupon on file in the box office. Simply bring your photo ID and tell the box office when you arrive that you have a special coupon for the show. (sorry, special coupon pricing not valid for the Sunday Matinee)

Synopsis

Andrew and Melissa are childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes. Romantically attached, they continue to exchange letters through the years. When Andy is off at war, Melissa marries, but her attachment to Andy remains strong and they continue to keep in touch. Eventually she and Andy do become briefly involved, but it is really too late for both of them. However Andy’s last letter, written to her mother, makes it eloquently clear how much they really meant, and gave to, each other over the years—physically apart, perhaps, but spiritually as close as only true lovers can be. What is created is an evocative, touching, frequently funny but always telling pair of character studies in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.

The Characters

Andrew Makepeace Ladd III – Seems to have his life all mapped out. He is a Yale Graduate, excels at Law School and becomes a successful attorney. He is bright and sophisticated, but always retains an irrepressible sense of humor. He has a strong attachment to and love for Melissa

Melissa Gardner – She, too, is born to wealth. However, she is more of the irascible sort. She continuously flunks out of school, is extremely mischievous and doesn’t like to conform. To anything, especially to what is “expected” of her. She marries, divorces, drinks more than she should dabbles in art and gigolos. Throughout the years, the one thing she has maintained is her love for Andy.